Desensitization: The Illusion and Association

2016 July 31st Streaming

https://youtu.be/6h-oe55ivqE

Greetings Everyone,

Well here we are at the end of July 2016. Monday is August 1st. Summer is on an express train to fall and winter. There was a lot happening the past week. As most of you know there was DNC in Philly. It was just as intense as the RNC the week before. As I was reading an article from a Christian blog this week the author made some very disappointing remakes about all the members of the other party. As I said it was disappointing but not surprising at all. Their comments were a confirming word to the power of the Spirit of fear and the process of desensitization to the person of Christ! It brings to mind what Paul tells us;

Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we [him] no more. 2Co 5:16

There’s a lot going on around us in the world today. All this is aimed at getting, holding and capturing our attention. The ongoing process of bringing the hearts and minds of humanity under subjection to the god of this world. His hatred and fear for all of humankind is without measure! He is still attempting to prove man is unworthy and don’t deserve to be seated at the right hand on the throne of God the Father. To take on His divine nature, His Spirit, His person. To be place and seated above all principalities and power and might. This is above him. It is declared in Hebrews 2:6-7 which says:

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: Heb 2:6-7



He knows that the Father has chosen this creature who is made lower than the angels to a place and destiny above any other creature the Father has created.
 He knows (the god of this world) that all of humankind was crowned by God the Father with a unique and special crown which no other creation of God the Father was given. He know that this crown is fixed on every man, woman and child which is conceived into this world. This includes the unregenerated man, the unsaved man, the sinner, and the natural man. He also knows that this crown is temporary and last only as long as a man lives in this world. He knows that if any man receives God seed, His Son, the person of Christ that man can become a new creation in Christ. He knows that man is birthed by God the Father Himself and that man is not only a new creation but he is another person. This wonderful act of love fulfills the Father’s purpose, intent and plan which came forth before the foundation of the world. He knows too that if a man dies without receiving God’s incorruptible seed Christ in them, this man’s fate is sealed and no different than his. But for those who have received and become a new creation, another person all together. What can he do with and to them? His intent is to keep all of us bound and tied to our own flesh and blood identity. Keep our hearts and minds connected to our affinity of biological birth. Thus keeping us blind and ignorant to who we are as another person to the Father. Keeping us bent on living in the same body of flesh and blood as always. Maybe with a little religious behavior modification to appear good! Let’s talk about it in fellowship!

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine

 

The new creation See-thru-er and current events part 2

2016 July 24th Streaming

https://youtu.be/8QE_8ZmzuxE

Greetings Beloved!

Can you believe July is almost over and August 1st is coming next Monday. This Summer fits the old saying “here today and gone tomorrow.” Once again we have current events from this week: A terror attack in Germany, an unarmed man shot while assisting a young man with autism, suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, and American politics with the RNC (Republican National Convention) happening and DNC (Democratic National Convention) coming this week. There is so much going on in every city, town, state, nation and country all over the world. You can see it almost the minute it happens. Many are saying the end is near. Others find scriptures to confirm prophecy of the coming of the Lord for His Body, the Church. While some are calling for prayer and fasting to bind the devil. The Spirit of fear is doing his job in millions of people with his illusions, deception, captivity and delusional thinking. His desensitization process blinds multitudes and keeps them searching for peace and safety. But what is our heavenly Father doing? Is He asleep and one of His created angles is running the show? Is He no longer omnipresent, omniscient, or omnipotent? Fear works best in the third dimensional physical world of the flesh; i.e. the practical world where things can be seen, touched, heard and thought through by understanding all the facts.

But God is Spirit. What He’s doing cannot be seen using the practical but can only be seen and understood with the impractical mind of the Spirit (the mind of Christ). The new creation see-thru-er is aware of what’s happening around them in the practical world. The new creation see-thru-er is NOT lead into the illusion laced with fear, thus is not deceived and lead into captivity by delusional thinking that the world is going to hell in a hand basket! They are seeing thru everything to the one person they are in union with, the person that birthed them to be who they are as Sons of God. They know what He’s doing because He loves them and is showing them all the things that he is doing around and to them. They know He will never leave them nor forsake them no matter what. They know Him as their love, joy and peace! The new creation see-thru-er knows the Father’s love will never fail! They see-thru to Him. The Apostle Paul said it this way;
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 8:35-39

So, let’s talk it one more time this week!

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine

The new creation See-thru-er and current events

 2016 July 17th Streaming
https://youtu.be/stARneL6ex0

Greetings Everyone,

Wow July is half gone and so is the summer! My,my, my there is so much going on in the world today! There was the Dallas shooting, the bombing in Nice France, and a failed coup in Turkey. And let’s not forget American politics. As a new creation race believer, what do all these things mean? Are we getting closer to the end? Are these the signs that will guide us to the rapture? Exactly what are we seeing in all these events happening all over the planet? The answer to all of these questions is not psychological, philosophical, sociological, political, emotional or even theological. The process of desensitization to the person of Christ has taken far too many professing Christians and even those who acknowledge that Christ lives in them into the illusion, deception, captivity and delusional thinking in the flesh. The Spirit of fear controls what many see, hear and think in their hearts and minds. Many are reading the book of Revelations and other Bible passages to pin point exactly what is happening and sadly believing they will know what is going to happen next. The apostle Paul writes, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. …But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.” 1Co 2:9, 14. He goes on to say later, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.” 2Co 4:18. And let us not forget Jesus’ comment concerning this subject, “Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” Luk 21:26. So where does that leave us as new creation believers? If we are desensitized, it will leave us right there with everybody else in their flesh and unsaved. Blind! Every new creation believer has birthed in them the power to live as a see-thru-er. They see-thru everything to their Father who is in complete control of everything that is seen and unseen! Nothing which has happened, which is happening and is going to happen is outside of His ultimate purpose, intent and plan of love. This does not add up for the natural man (the flesh and blood human). Let’s talk about this power and ability to see-thru everything to our Father who is saying “I’ve got this, come to me!”

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine

Desensitization and Shipwreck Faith

2016 July 10th Streaming

https://youtu.be/3p4oq0j8j-M

Greetings Everyone!
I trust summer is going well with you all. We have been having rain here in our area of Texas paradise. We had a great thunder shower this afternoon which cooled things right down. Katherine and I went for a walk! Let’s talk about tomorrow’s fellowship. Have you ever wondered what shipwreck faith is? How does one come or arrive at a place where the apostle Paul would say “concerning faith have made shipwreck”? Because the power of desensitization to the person of Christ, far too many believers have become shipwrecked. And most don’t even know it. Just checkout social media sometimes and read the comments many professing believers say. Or sit and listen to the fear driven conversations many have concerning everything but the Father’s purpose, intent and plan for the new creation race believer. Does this mean they have shipwreck faith? Has the desensitization process taken them to a place where the person of Christ is not an issue, but the world in which they live is? There is much more we could say about the subject, but let’s wait until Sunday fellowship. Let’s talk about it!

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine

Our Affinity and the power of desensitization to the person of Christ part 2

2016 July 3rd Streaming
https://youtu.be/I_-j1QL4QTA
Greetings Everyone,
It’s the 4th of July weekend! Today’s message is about the inner and outer person we live. Our affinity (our union) is inner but we are constantly pushed and pulled to the outer man.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. Rom 8:9-10
 
Let’s first look at the definition and meaning of the word Affinity.
1: relationship by marriage (union)

2: an attraction to or liking for something

(2): an attractive force between substances or particles that causes them to enter into and remain in chemical combination
c: a person especially of the opposite sex having a particular attraction for one
In affinity is where we find our identity. And this is also where the problem lies. You see we appear to have more than one affinity or identity. Far too many new creation offspring of God the Father live in delusional thinking.
 
Our affinity in Christ is how all unbeliever’s become “new creatures” (creation; being; person; generation; race) 2Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15.
The affinity of Christ and the believer fulfills the Father’s plan to have sons likened unto Himself. With Christ in us we have become everything and ALL God has called us to be before the foundation of the world. Daily we should be growing into the likeness of His glory and the expressed image of His person, as our minds are renewed to who we are as a “new creation race/person” in Christ. But this is only part of what is meant by being “in Christ”. As we search the scriptures, the Holy Spirit will reveal a more dynamic, richer and fuller understanding of our union “in Christ.”    
Our affinity (union) “in Christ” does not speak of the theological position of the believer, but an actual union that exists between Christ and the believer. This affinity is as a vine and branch, based upon the sharing of ONE LIFE. What makes a vine and a branch one is the sharing of the same life substance. The same sap that flows through a vine flows through a branch. When you are born again, the same Life substance that Christ has inside of Him comes into your spirit. That Life, eternal Life, puts you in union with Christ.
Secondly, this affinity between you and Christ is a union of your spirit with Him.
1Cor 6:17 says, “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.”
Our union with Christ is an actual, literal union that has been formed in your spirit because you posses the Life and person of Christ. This affinity was formed the moment you were born again. It was then that your spirit received eternal life-the person of Christ.
Love in Christ,
David & Katherine
 
 

Our Affinity and the power of desensitization to the person of Christ

2016 July 2nd Streaming

https://youtu.be/lWqfLgDNaGg

Greetings Everyone,

It’s the 4th of July weekend!  Today’s message is about the inner and outer person we live.  Our affinity (our union) is inner but we are constantly pushed and pulled to the outer man.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.  Rom 8:9-10

 

Let’s first look at the definition and meaning of the word Affinity.

  • 1:  relationship by marriage (union)
  • 2:  an attraction to or liking for something

(2):  an attractive force between substances or particles that causes them to enter into and remain in chemical combination

c:  a person especially of the opposite sex having a particular attraction for one

In affinity is where we find our identity.  And this is also where the problem lies.  You see we appear to have more than one affinity or identity.  Far too many new creation offspring of God the Father live in delusional thinking.

 

Our affinity in Christ is how all unbeliever’s become “new creatures” (creation; being; person; generation; race) 2Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15.

The affinity of Christ and the believer fulfills the Father’s plan to have sons likened unto Himself.  With Christ in us we have become everything and ALL God has called us to be before the foundation of the world.  Daily we should be growing into the likeness of His glory and the expressed image of His person, as our minds are renewed to who we are as a “new creation race/person” in Christ.   But this is only part of what is meant by being “in Christ”.  As we search the scriptures, the Holy Spirit will reveal a more dynamic, richer and fuller understanding of our union “in Christ.”    

Our affinity (union) “in Christ” does not speak of the theological position of the believer, but an actual union that exists between Christ and the believer.  This affinity is as a vine and branch, based upon the sharing of ONE LIFE.  What makes a vine and a branch one is the sharing of the same life substance.  The same sap that flows through a vine flows through a branch.  When you are born again, the same Life substance that Christ has inside of Him comes into your spirit.  That Life, eternal Life, puts you in union with Christ.

Secondly, this affinity between you and Christ is a union of your spirit with Him.

1Cor 6:17 says, “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.”

Our union with Christ is an actual, literal union that has been formed in your spirit because you posses the Life and person of Christ.  This affinity was formed the moment you were born again.  It was then that your spirit received eternal life-the person of Christ.

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine

 

 

The unique ability and power God gave man

2016 June 26th Streaming

https://youtu.be/RdX8_PfpAMk

Greetings Everyone,

Well we finally broke into 100 degree temps this week here in the Dallas area.  Yes the true sign of summer! Hot! Hot! And yes hot! But as the apostle Paul tells us “Not that I speak in respect of want: (cooler weather/temperatures) for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, (that would include Texas) therewith to be content.” Phil 4:1.  This weather will change sooner or later.  But there is a unique ability and power God has created in man that will not change.  Humankind was chosen before the foundation to be in Christ.  Before we were created, God chose to create within every person a very unique and specific ability.  Some might call it a gift or a power or a capability or just an ability. Everyone has this ability whether they know they possess it, or not.  The specific and unique ability gives us all the power to become someone just as unique as our ability.  So, what is this ability? What power does it yield?  Can we lose it?  When can we start to use it?  The answer is in due season… Let’s talk about it!

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine

 

Happy Father’s Day! Who can really be a Father?

2016 June 19th Streaming
https://youtu.be/NF9WdeflZJM

Greetings Everyone!
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers! Wow our time is really flying by. We just did the Mother’s Day fellowship and now it’s Father’s Day. We will talk about fathers and what makes them who they are. But first let’s have a little history on Father’s Day. After all we did cover the history of Mother’s Day. So, let’s take a look at how we started celebrating Father’s Day.

Establishment of holiday
In 1910, a Father’s Day celebration was held in Spokane, Washington, at the YMCA by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the civil war veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis’ Mother’s Day in 1909 at Central Methodist Episcopal Church, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father’s birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. Several local clergymen accepted the idea, and on June 19, 1910, the first Father’s Day, “sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city.” 
However, in the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane. In the 1930s, Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level. She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers. By 1938 she had the help of the Father’s Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men’s Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial promotion. Americans resisted the holiday for its first few decades, viewing it as nothing more than an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother’s Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes. However, said merchants remained resilient and even incorporated these attacks into their advertisements. By the mid-1980s, the Father’s Council wrote that “(…) [Father’s Day] has become a Second Christmas for all the men’s gift-oriented industries.” 

A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father’s Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus “[singling] out just one of our two parents”. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972. 

God who is the eternal Father has provided men with a unique ability which can only be expressed by Him. And it makes no difference who you are in the flesh. It is a power which defines humankind and gives us an understanding of the love of God who is Father to us all! Let’s talk about it!
Love in Christ,
David & Katherine

God and Religion: Is He There

2016 June 12th Streaming

https://youtu.be/fuSDPXrj-aY

Greetings Everyone!

This was our first full week of summer. It was busy for us. We enjoyed a visit from the kids and grand kids. Our youngest grand-daughter is the cutest! We’ll miss them! Our message for this week deals with God and religion. And the question is He anywhere to be found in religion? The Father and I had a great conversation this week concerning the subject. I know how Satan through religion can and has wreaked havoc in the Body of Christ. His spirit of fear and the process of desensitization to the person makes it appear that religion is winning. It’s not and neither is he! The love of our Father is far above what we can ask or think! Our issue is not weather religion is bad or good. Weather some have it and we don’t. Weather we don’t have it and they do. The issue is, who is the person of Christ to you! Who is the person of Christ in you! Who are you as the Son of God now living as another. Let’s not be deceived. Religion will be here long after the body of Christ is gone. It is necessary for the Father’s purpose, intent and plan!  

[Is](religion) then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a (religion) given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by (religion). Gal 3:21 

 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom (religion) is crucified unto me, and I unto (religion). Gal 6:14 (words added)

Let’s talk about it!

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine

 

Faith: What is it? (Manna) Part 2

2016 June 5th Streaming

https://youtu.be/yp3GY5K3__w

Greeting Everyone,

Well Friday was our last day of the school year here. It’s now officially in summer vacation. The rain has been coming down pretty much daily. PTL! Before too long we’ll be looking at those long hot summer days here in Texas! We’ll be completing the message on faith this week in fellowship. Here’s just a part of the notes for Sunday fellowship.  

As you might be coming to see how so many of us can used these words so interchangeably. What we think we are saying is not always what it means by word definition. Surely when we use the word faith is might not mean the same every time we use it. So, where do we get our faith from? Is it something we possess and control? Does everyone have faith or is it something that only a lucky or blessed few? It is just for the believer or does the non-believer have also? Paul tells us this about faith and humankind.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Rom 12:3

According to Paul, God did something with faith. He dealt or bestowed, imparted, distributed and divided (split in to factions) this thing called faith to all of humankind. That means we all have faith but it is not complete faith. Our faith is incomplete in itself and we need something or someone to complete it for us. We must possess a new complete faith to operate in full assurance of our faith! Think about it from the time we were created we’ve had all the faith we needed. Yet from the beginning it was incomplete!

The faith of Adam

As we read Genesis 2:16-27; 2:19-20; 3:9-11. We see Adam have his own knowledge operating within him. This was his faith or knowledge in operation! He operated in the full measure of the knowledge he was given.

Adam’s measure of faith from these verse.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen 2:16-17

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. Gen 2:19-20

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? Gen 3:10-11

Where was his knowledge or faith limited? In the following areas.

He didn’t know what “die” was. He didn’t know what fear was. And he didn’t know they were naked. Limited knowledge means incomplete faith! Let’s talk about it!

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine